Marie Tannæs

Marie Tannæs
Marie Tannæs
	Portrait of Marie Tannæs, 1892; by Signe Scheel
Born	19 March 1854; Oslo, Norway
Died	20 February 1939 (aged 84); Copenhagen, Denmark
Nationality	Norwegian
Known for	Painting

Marie Katharine Helene Tannæs (1854–1939), was a Norwegian painter known for her landscape paintings.

Biography

Tannæs was born 19 March 1854 in Oslo.^[2] She studied with Carl Schøyen, Christian Wexelsen, Christian Krohg, Hans Heyerdahl, Erik Werenskiold, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. She attend the Académie Colarossi in Paris from 1888 through 1889.^[3]

Tannæs exhibited frequently at the Høstutstillingen.^[3] She exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.^[1] Tannæs received an honorable mention at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889, a bronze medal at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, and a Silver Medal at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.^[3]

Tannæs died 20 February 1939 in Copenhagen, Denmark.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 24 August 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Tannæs, Marie (1854 - 1939) [no] - KulturNav". kulturnav.org. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c Wichstrøm, Anne; Aamold, Svein (20 February 2017). "Marie Tannæs". Norsk kunstnerleksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 24 August 2018.